Don't Wake Daddy!!!

Kevin has always been a napper. I have watched him fall asleep in cars, at the zoo, on airplanes and just about any other scenario you can imagine. To be honest, I mostly accept that all men are just lazy. It doesn't really bother me. So from the beginning of my relationship with Kevin, I just assumed he was a little bit lazy and he really liked to nap. I like swiss cake rolls. We all have our own nonsense. It wasn't a big deal.

After we got married though I began to notice something odd. Kevin didn't just like naps, he seemed to be unable to function without one. We slept late one Sunday morning. By early that afternoon, he was literally falling asleep at his computer. That's not laziness, my friend.

My job at Vandy had exposed me to myriad cases of sleep apnea so Kevin scheduled a sleep study. It turns out he was having apnea episodes every 90 seconds or so. Imagine if someone poked you hard enough to wake you up every minute and a half throughout the night. Chances are you'd probably need a nap or two to make it through the day.

We investigated some surgical options but ended up going with the standard sleep apnea treatment... the CPAP. So far, it seems to be helping a great deal. He can still take a nap if he wants to. Apnea could have killed him. Laziness doesn't seem like that big a deal in comparison.

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